Life, 1924-01-10 · page 14 of 44
Life — January 10, 1924 — page 14: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct satirical pieces: **"My Husband Says"** (top): A humorous advice column mocking women's beauty routines. The article ridicules facial treatments like mud masks and face-building exercises, suggesting they're ineffective and that women's natural features are simply inadequate—a joke at both women's vanity and the era's dubious cosmetic claims. **Lower cartoon**: Depicts Prohibition-era enforcement. King Solomon questions a figure (likely a Prohibition agent or policeman) about "awful noise"—the agent holds a large bottle while children suffer from whooping cough in the background. The satire critiques Prohibition's unintended consequences: the confiscated "medicine" bottles presumably contained alcohol banned by the 18th Amendment (1920), forcing families to suffer without legitimate remedies.
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LIFE - My Husband Says HAT he doesn’t mind a little powder or even a light coat of paint, but it makes him nervous to see the girls so carcless with lighted, matches. But I think the lavender-tinted powder gives one’s face a heavenly glow, and of course there is really no danger, and every one likes to look as attractive as she can. Mrs. Awllyn told me that she tried a mud pack. You must smear it all over the face and it dries out to a light gray, and you must relax after you apply the mud. So she did, and went to sleep. Her husband came home carly and he didn't know about mud packs and he thought she had died a horrible death and was furious when he found she hadn't She said that her husband said she should try such ex- periments in a less conspicuous place. She tried face-building, too, and didn't look any different, hut my husband says the Great Architect gave her a poor foundation to build on. “encar| “WHERE ON “EARTH HAVE*You BEEN?” She says she has tried simply everything with absolutely gor (K.K.K.): BEEN OUT wiTH THE—hic—BOYS, 31” DEAR no results; and she thinks a lincless face is positively char- | A LIAR WHO SAID THE KLAN MAM No RESPECT For acterless, anyhow, and she thinks it is much better to just LAW AN’ ORDER. cultivate a sweet disposition and ‘et the natural soul lines tell their own story, 'O celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Prohibition But Mrs. Sharpe said she tried that and the strain was amendment during the week of January 16, let us have perfectly fiendish and at the end of three weeks she was a no-drinking week. ready to commit murder 1. Blanche Simpson. NS NG King Solomon: WHat 18 THAT AWFUL NOISE 1 HEAR? Slave: 0 KING! SOME FIVE HUNDRED OF THY CHILDREN HAVE WHOOPING COUGH AND 1 FEAR TIS SPREADING. comicbooks.com